Movie review thread...
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Italian Job - the 2013 version
How does Marky Mark get acting gigs? Pinocchio has more range and ability than that midget.
I remember reading somewhere he was a superb hustler when trying to work his way into the big-time. Networker, greaser extraordinaire.
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Thoughts from the movie buffs in here ?
“The Shining” is perfect quarantine viewing
Not least because you will never work out what it meansIn stanley kubrick’s horror classic, “The Shining”, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is hired as the winter caretaker of the cavernous Overlook Hotel, miles from anywhere in the Colorado Rockies. “Physically it’s not a very demanding job,” the manager tells him before the start of what is supposed to be a five-month stint. “The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is a tremendous sense of isolation.” Adapted from Stephen King’s bestseller, “The Shining” was released 40 years ago in May, but it is spookily relevant to the world’s predicament today.
Jack dismisses the manager’s warning. When he is left alone in the Overlook with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), he is elated: he plans to knock out a novel in the peace and quiet. But like so many people who imagine that they will tick off a long-postponed project or two during the lockdown, Jack is mistaken. As far removed as “The Shining” is from Kubrick’s philosophical science-fiction masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, the message of both films is that if three people are stuck in a confined space in the middle of nowhere, one of them will go mad and try to murder the others.
In 1980 “The Shining” was not as well received as “2001” had been in 1968; Mr King himself was unimpressed. But the film’s reputation improved with age. You need not have seen it to be aware of its brightly nightmarish images: the phantom sisters in blue dresses; the tidal wave of blood gushing from the lifts. The carpet pattern of red, orange and brown hexagons was reproduced in the foyer of the Design Museum in London for its Kubrick retrospective last year. No other floor covering in cinema history is so recognisable.
Famous imagery aside, the film is revered now for the same reason it was initially criticised: it refuses to spell out its themes or explain its plot twists. Is Danny summoning ghosts with his psychic powers? Is Jack insane before he comes to the Overlook? Is he the reincarnation of someone who was there 60 years earlier? And how come the vast hotel stays so gleamingly clean when nobody ever dusts?
Kubrick is known as an obsessive perfectionist, and so some fans believe that he answers all those questions and more in the movie—it is just that they can’t agree on what the answers are. A documentary released in 2012, “Room 237”, compiles some of the more imaginative interpretations, from the plausible (it’s about the slaughter of Native Americans) to the eyebrow-raising (it’s a cryptic confession that Kubrick faked the Apollo Moon landings).
That is why “The Shining” is ideal viewing now. Not only is the Torrances’ tremendous sense of isolation a gothic caricature of the lockdown, but you can watch the film again and again without ever working out what it all means.
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@voodoo For me, the shining, as a film, was ridiculous. Some of the scenes are fantastic, and the suspense / cinematography etc is brilliant. However, the plot is ludicrously dull and straight forwards.
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Family goes to hotel, dad goes mad, kid communicates (the shining) with a dude who goes all through the night to get there, only to get killed literally straight away by mad dad. Dad then dies in the snow when gets confused in a maze.
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Over-rated, weak, faff.
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Watched two Kingly movies on Netflix of late as I trawl through my backlog:
The King
Henry V story - pretty good. Bit of a twist on the Shakespeare but from a visual point of view it was grouse.A few Aussies sprinkled around and that Timothee Chalamet kid can act.Outlaw / King
Chris Pine rips it up as Robert the Bruce. Yeah fuck the historical accuracy - just swords and intrigue and shit. Thought he held his accent fairly well. -
@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The King
Henry V story - pretty good. Bit of a twist on the Shakespeare but from a visual point of view it was grouse.A few Aussies sprinkled around and that Timothee Chalamet kid can act.Bloody good movie IMO.
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I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
Yeah, I don't 'get' the Kubrick thing either, even though some of his films I find ok.
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BlacKkKlansman
TBH I struggled with the pace of this movie. No doubt it was good acting and after the shitshow that was his appearance in Star Bores, Adam Drive is growing on me as a performer.
Powerful ending but I felt it could have built to it quicker than 2 hours.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
Agreed. His rep by far outweighs any evidence that I have seen. In looking at his filmography, there is not actually a lot there. 16 films over 48 years is not a huge output.
Of the ones that I have seen, I would be prepared to re-watch Paths of Glory, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket. The rest is, to me, self indulgent beautifully shot, shite.
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@NTA I've seen the King and thought it was a pretty good film, though a couple of the more pivotal events never actually happened. Prince Hal killing Hotspur in single combat was a bit of Shakepearian licence and the Dauphin was not even at the Battle of Agincourt. But overall a good film.
I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the Outlaw King as yet. I've had enough Braveheart bollocks from Mel Gibson and the really, awfully dreary follow-up Robert the Bruce, plus Chris Pine annoys me.
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@Catogrande a lot of it was Shakespeare so not based entirely in fact.
Outlaw King will probably get in your nerves then as it fucked with the timelines a bit as well 😉 plus the Scots win 🤣
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@NTA I don’t mind a bit of artistic licence but get a bit “meh” when the main points are just demonstrably wrong. A bit like that Hollywood film about the cracking of enigma during WWII. All bollocks but it almost becomes accepted fact. Before you know it we’ll believe that Father Christmas always wore a Coca-Cola red suit and lemmings commit suicide in their thousands.
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Anybody watched the "cursed film" Antrum?😱😱
Might watch it with my husband without the spoiler below.... 👹
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@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
god you sound like my Father in Law
i love Braveheart, great movie. Historically accurate movies would make poor theatre
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
god you sound like my Father in Law
i love Braveheart, great movie. Historically accurate movies would make poor theatre
If Quentin Tarantino was a ferner he'd definitely "like" this post
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
She was into the kinky stuff then
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
She was into the kinky stuff then
